David MacKenzie Quotes
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
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I never write with an actor in mind - never.
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I'm looking way ahead. I'm looking at Connecticut.
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America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
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Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
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I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.
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All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
